Posted on 02/20/2009 12:17:39 PM PST by rightwingintelligentsia
The White House is lashing out publicly and personally at a CNBC reporter whose attack on President Barack Obama’s anti-foreclosure plan caught fire on the Internet on Thursday.
White House press secretary Robert Gibbs jumped at the chance to go after the CNBC journalist, Rick Santelli, when a question about his bracing critique was asked at Friday’s news briefing.
“I’ve watched Mr. Santelli on cable the past 24 hours or so. I’m not entirely sure where Mr. Santelli lives or in what house he lives but the American people are struggling every day to meet their mortgages, stay in their jobs, pay their bills, send their kids to school,” Gibbs said. “I think we left a few months ago the adage that if it was good for a derivatives trader that it was good for Main Street. I think the verdict is in on that,” the press secretary said, poking directly at the cable journalist, who reports from the trading floor at the Chicago Board of Trade.
Gibbs insisted Santelli was misinformed when he said Obama’s program would amount to a transfer of money from prudent taxpayers to those who had taken reckless risks.
(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...
So true. So is the “pay by the mile” idea versus a gasoline tax. You see, most densely packed cities clogged with traffic vote democratic. Because you are in stop and go traffic, you burn more gas per mile. Hence “pay by the mile” will (in general) favor Democratic areas versus Republican areas.
Sick and wrong.
He said he didn’t want to take a bath every hour...so no going to DC, LOL.
Oh, now you're really getting me going.
How many times during Bush's presidency did we hear arm-chair psychologists "shrinking" Bush on national television? He was diagnosed and labeled everything from a dry-drunk to suffering a Oedipal complex to being dyslexic to suffering from drug addiction.
Now, Obama is a guy who has written TWO books. On what subject? Himself. Before the age of 44, he had written TWO AUTOBIOGRAPHIES. How large much a person's ego be to compel him to write two books about himself? If there's ever an example of someone suffering from a Messianic complex, it's Barack Obama (by the way, people sure weren't afraid to throw that charge around against Bush).
I think Obama has abandonment issues, severe narcissistic tendencies and perhaps even some hints of anti-social behavior. And, given his penchant for cocaine and cigarettes and even his Blackberry, he clearly has an addictive personality.
In short, Barack Obama is a therapist's dream come true.
I haven’t been to the Taste in years. Too big a crowd, way too expensive. But I would go to this, and bring all of my friends. It would be a ‘taste’ all right, one that would be hard for them to swallow.
See this from Sept.2008...I just started a thread see link at post #159.
"I’m not entirely sure where Mr. Santelli lives or in what house he lives"
Nice. He could have thrown something in about where his wife works or where the kids go to school but that would have been too obvious.
Redo the math — it’s probably around $25 trillion - a he11 of a lot of $$.
No, Obama is a chronic heavy smoker, never saw a smoker that was all there...
And America's nightmare. With a court jester as VP.
Does Gibbs have wife and kids?
Jusst askin
“I haven’t been to the Taste in years. Too big a crowd, way too expensive. But I would go to this, and bring all of my friends. It would be a ‘taste’ all right, one that would be hard for them to swallow.”
Same here, but I will be attending this year also!
What about the one’s who have paid off their mortgage loan? Your suggestion would be very unfair to them......
This is for Gibbs, send this message back... don’t worry, there’s much more where this comes from. (RNC ping)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hP-YoB5mnZs
“Hope Mr. Santelli doesn’t have a mysterious “accident””
He at least needs to make sure that his federal tax returns are properly documented. An audit is probably headed his way.
Robert Gibbs is a pimp
The class hatred among the Obamanistas is so thick you can cut it with a knife.
Only dyed-in-the-wool Commies worry about what kind of a house a man lives in!
Further proof of Obama’s thin skin and vindictiveness. This is an unprecedented attack on a private citizen by the president.
I wonder how long before Obama mobilizes his leftist brownshirt army of ACORN, Organizing for America, & Moveon.org to launch a campaign against Santelli.
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